Spencer LaVere Smith on Nostr: I can kind of understand the value of grad student TAs. Every year, this material ...
I can kind of understand the value of grad student TAs. Every year, this material gets more and more reflexive to me, and I get further and further from where the students are at. Me: "One slide is enough for the Helmholtz decomposition. They probably already know it from high school." #iteachphysics
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